TMHS 789: 3 Simple Health Practices To Get You Fitter & More Functional This Summer
The Model Health Show
Shawn Stevenson
4.8 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to the model health show with Sean Stevenson. |
| 0:04.0 | For more visit the model health show. |
| 0:07.0 | On this episode we're going to dive into three simple practices to get you |
| 0:15.5 | fitter and more functional this summer. Physical activity is often lumped into |
| 0:19.9 | this pithy box of quote exercise when indeed there are literally thousands of |
| 0:25.7 | different expressions of what physical activity can be. You can be doing the most |
| 0:30.7 | fun or even the most mundane activities and significantly improve |
| 0:35.8 | your health at the same time. |
| 0:37.7 | And I'm going to show you how. |
| 0:39.3 | In my recent conversation with Harvard psychologist, Dr. Ellen Langer. |
| 0:43.0 | She shared with me a study that she conducted |
| 0:45.0 | on housekeepers at a series of hotels. |
| 0:49.0 | Again, looking at mundane activities, |
| 0:51.0 | things that we might be doing on a daily basis that we can |
| 0:54.9 | actually turn into physical fitness. Now the study was published in the journal |
| 0:59.3 | Psychological Science and it noted that these housekeepers essentially viewed their work as work and that |
| 1:06.1 | quote exercise was something that people did at the gym or someplace outside of work. Now nearly 100 women took part in this study. Half of them |
| 1:16.0 | were placed in the control group that were given general health information. |
| 1:19.8 | While the other half, the experiment group, were taught how the work that they were doing |
| 1:25.2 | was substantial exercise. They were given examples of how certain jobs like mopping and changing |
| 1:31.4 | sheets compared to exercises like row machines and lateral |
| 1:35.6 | raises. |
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